Contains among other things: German Southwest Africa, German East Africa, South Africa

Contains among other things: South Africa, Mozambique, German South West Africa

Contains: Minutes of 13.12.1926, Berlin

Contains: Minutes of 4.11.1927, Berlin

Contains among other things: AV and the Friedrich Langesche Reichswahlverein AV and the German Colonial Society AV and the Alldeutsche Verein für die Ostmark Position of the AV on the German National Confederation in North America Permits from the Burensammlung Deutsch-Ungarische Korrespondenz Support for the Deutscher Tagblatt für Ungarn

Contains among other things: National Committee Reichstag and the Compensation of the Settlers of German South-West Africa England and the German Reich Detachment of Hungary from the Habsburg Monarchy Communication of the Lawyer Stolte, Concerning "German Mediterranean Society" (Morocco) Press Release on the Meeting of the Executive Committee of March 4, 1905

Contains among other things: "German History" Report: The AV, the Colonial Society and the Fleet Association Wehrschatzangelegenheiten

Contains among other things: Prof. Dr. Samassas resigned as editor on 1 July 1904 German Press in Hungary Collection for German Southwest Africa

Contains also: Meetings of the Standing Committee of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l b e a f f t

Includes: e.g. Swimmsportverein Hessen (membership card 1926/28); Deutsche Jugendherbergen membership card 1926 (with photo); Studentische Wirtschaftshilfe Darmstadt e.V. for 1929; Gesellschaft Hessischer Bücherfreunde, Mitgliedskarten 1929/30, 1931/32; Reichsklub der Deutschen Volkspartei (-1928), Gesellschaft für freie Philosophie, Darmstadt (membership card 1930); Automobilclub für Deutschland, Berlin, membership card 1928; Ehrenkarte Verbandsspiel Süddeutsche Meisterschaft (South German championship). Football and Athletics Association); association for the erection of a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück e.V. for 1931; membership card Harmonie Worms 1859 for 1928; membership cards Darmstädter Herr-Club 1929/1930; membership card Deutscher Kolonial-Verein 1931; Reiterverein Worms u. Umgebung, membership card 1928; Ernst-Ludwig-Hochschulgesellschaft. Association of Friends of the Technical University Darmstadt e.V., membership card 1931

Contains: Reflections on German Demands for the Supplies of War from Neutral Abroad, 2 March 1939 Handling of the Naval War (Discussion in the AA), 26 Sept. 1939 Prisenordnung, Gesetze und Verordnungen (Reichsgesetzblätter Nr. 161 und 176), Sept. 1939 Discharge Mines against England (Memorandum by Reich Minister Hess, copy), 7 Dec. 1939 Danger of the Transportation of Banngut, especially to England (Notice to the Governments in Rome, Madrid, Moscow, and Tokyo by the German Embassies), 6 March 1939, 6 December 1939, 6 December 1939, and 7 December 1939, respectively. Jan. 1940 English measures in the economic war against Germany (note), 20 March 1940 German-Italian cooperation in the surveillance and disruption of British import and export trade with Turkey (report of the German Embassy in Turkey), 9 Sept. 1940 Resumption of overseas shipping by blockade breakers, 1940-1941 Whaling questions, including overview of the state of German-Norwegian-English whale oil negotiations, 1939-1940

Contains among other things: Dissolution of the Association of Colonial Friends, 1933/34

Old Sign: Box 25; 1 Bü. (1 cm)

Order and Classification: The MfN holdings are listed in the University Archives under the name "Zoologisches Museum" and sorted by access number. The existing stock was presumably re-sorted several times over the years. At the end of 2017/beginning of 2018, the cartoned MfN inventory was entered into our Augias database system in autopsy, classified and a finding aid book created. The FB index is based on the page numbers. Foreword: The basis for the museum, initially known as the Zoological Museum, was formed by the zoological objects transferred to the University by the Royal Chamber of Art. The collections were housed on the second floor of the eastern wing of the university building. The museum was to be "the centre for the state's zoological collections and an educational institution for all the people". Soon after the foundation, however, the government withdrew all anatomical specimens and transferred them to Prof. Rudolphi (1771-1832) to establish his own collection. The museum, without a regular budget, was financed by donations. A registry was established in 1819. "In 1836, the museum was renamed a "collection" because the first title was intended for art museums only". After 1856 the institution was again called "Zoological Museum". The new building, intended to house the geological-paleontological, mineralogical-petrographical and zoological collections of the University, was given the name "Museum of Natural History" by ministerial decree of 7 May 1887. The building of the Museum für Naturkunde, ceremoniously opened on 2 December 1889, was erected on the site of the former Royal Iron Foundry in Berlin in the years 1883-1889. During the construction work, it was decided to separate the collections into a joint display collection of the three museums housed in the Museum für Naturkunde (ground floor) and several further separate main collections (1st and 2nd floors). The collections were open to the public several days a week. From 1911, official guided tours and lectures, led by a scientific official, took place. They were interrupted during the First World War. The collections each included their own institutes. In 1884, in connection with the appointment negotiations of Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840-1921), the Zoological Institute, which was also housed in the museum building, gained its independence as a special institution. The University Archive therefore has its own "Zoological Institute" collection with a separate index. The shops, which related to the museum as a whole, were managed by an administrative director for all parts of the tripartite Museum of Natural History. For the donors of more important gifts, donor boards were placed in the exhibition halls and in the atrium. In 1898 Möbius founded the "Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin". In 1901 the building was connected to the municipal power stations. An extension of the museum building began on August 1, 1914. The building of the Museum für Naturkunde also housed the Institute for Genetics of the University of Berlin (H. Timofeeff-Ressowsky) and the "German Institute for Gem and Pearl Research at the University of Berlin" (German Gem Institute, Director: Ramdohr), which was founded on April 1, 1928. In the 2nd World War one wing of the building was completely destroyed and the entire building was severely damaged. When it reopened to the public on 16 September 1945, it was temporarily given the name Deutsches Zoologisches Museum (German Zoological Museum). Student education had already been resumed in the summer of 1945. From 10.01.-31.12.1947 the Museum für Naturkunde (or only the part Zoologisches Museum) belonged to the German Academy of Sciences. The files available here end around 1954, and are presumed to be located in the historical workroom of the Museum für Naturkunde. The current no. 075 - 082 were missing during the database entry on 07.11.2017 and probably already during the move in 2016. Claudia Hilse, 17.01.2018 Sources: - Chronicle of the FWU - Lenz, Max: History of the Royal FWU. - Third volume. - Hallle, 1910 - HU/UA, MfN: 178 Period to: 1954 Period from: 1812 Citation method: HU UA, Museum of Natural History.01, No. XXX. HU UA, MfN.01, No. XXX. State of development, extent: 193 files in 38 cartons: approx. 5.3 running meters

History of the Inventor: On 1.6.1940, the military commander Belgium-Northern France was established for Belgium and for the French departments Nord and Pas de Calais. He was under the direct authority of the commander-in-chief of the army and exercised executive authority in the territories under his authority. In July 1944, the staff of the military commander was transformed into that of a Wehrmacht commander. At the same time, a Reich Commissioner for the occupied territories of Belgium and northern France was appointed for the civilian sector. Description: On 1 June 1940, for Belgium and the French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, the military commander Belgium-Northern France was appointed (with the exception of the territories of Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet, which had been assigned to the Empire by the decree of the Führer). The head of the civil administration of Luxembourg was subordinate to the military commander only from 21 July to August 1940. The military administration covered an area of 30 506 square kilometres with 8.3 million inhabitants in Belgium and 12 355 square kilometres with 3.2 million inhabitants in northern France. In July 1944, the staff of the military commander was transformed into that of a Wehrmacht commander, while at the same time a Reich Commissioner was appointed for the civilian sector for the occupied territories of Belgium and northern France. The main tasks of the military administration were 1. the collection and use of the economic potential of the occupied territory, 2. the procurement of the necessary needs of the military, and 3. the establishment of organs for the maintenance of the public safety and order of the country, in particular in the interest of the Wehrmacht and its connection to the units in Germany, as well as the defense against enemy landing attempts and coastal protection. In order to carry out these tasks with the least possible means, it made sense to set up a pure supervisory administration in the occupied territory, i.e. not to administer the territory itself while maintaining the local administrative organs as far as possible, but only to exercise supervisory control by means of military administration, which, however, was only practicable for as long as Germany did not attempt to intervene in internal Belgian and - as far as the administration was responsible - French conditions in a changing manner. In order to maintain economic life in the interest of its use for the German war economy and to maintain public safety and order in the sense of relieving the German military forces as far as possible, the German military administration therefore had to make concessions to the existing conditions. Characterisation of content: In the existing written material, the reports of the subordinate supreme field commandantures document processes of daily life in occupied Belgium. The detailed weekly, monthly and annual reports, which are preserved in the extensive files of the military administration, provide a comprehensive picture of the economic situation from June 1940 to August 1944, as well as documents on the treatment of King Leopold III, the repatriation of Belgian art treasures from southern France, the fight against the resistance movement, and the establishment, organisation and operation of the Walloon and Flemish security services. The finding aid is subject to the following structure: 1. family tree 2. command staff military commander in Belgium and Northern France 2.1. abbot Ia (leadership department) 2.1.2. organisation and territorial administration 2.1.3. daily reports and situation reports 2.1.4. Political affairs 2.1.5. Military security of occupied territories 2.1.6. Telephone directories 2.1.7. Foreign associations 2.1.8. Division Ia/Stopi (pioneering) 2.1.9. Division Ia/Terr. 2.1.10. Division Ia/Gabo (gas defence service) 2.1.11. Division Ia/Mil.Geo. (Military Geography) 2.2. Dept. IIa (Personnel Matters) 2.3. Dept. Z 2.4. Higher Field Gendarmerie Officer 2.5. Senior Quartermaster Division Belgium/Northern France 2.5.1. O.Qu./Abt. Ia/Org. (Organization) 2.5.2. O.Qu./Abt. IVa (Intendant) 2.5.3 O.Qu./Abt. IVb (Chief Medical Officer) 2.5.4. O.Qu./Abt. IVc (Veterinary) 2.5.5. O.Qu./Department Quartermaster 1 2.5.6. O.Qu./Department Quartermaster 2 and 3 2.5.7. O.Qu./Field Staff 2.6. Transport Officer 2.7. Higher Intelligence Officer 2.8. Head of Secret Field Police 3. Military Administration Staff 3.1. Chief of Military Administration Staff 3.1.1. Activity Reports 3.1.2. Final Reports 3.1.3. Miscellaneous 3.2. Head of the Presidential Office 3.2.1. Personal details 3.2.2. Organisation of the staff 3.3. Head of the Administrative Department 3.3.1. Welfare 3.3.2. Press and radio 3.3.3 Justice and justice 3.3.3.1 Organisation 3.3.3.2 Activity reports 3.3.3.3 Administrative matters 3.3.3.4 International law and reprisals 3.3.3.5. Belgian legislation, legal assistance and administration 3.3.3.6. Criminal matters 3.3.3.7. Police measures 3.3.4. Art protection 3.3.5. Water management 3.4. Head of the economic department 3.4.1. Reports 3.4.2. Statistics 3.4.3. Seizures 3.4.4. Industrial economy 3.4.5. Foreign trade, payments and foreign exchange 3.4.6. Economic transport requirements 3.4.7. Forestry and timber 3.4.8. Petroleum 3.4.9. Stones and earths 3.4.10. Mining 3.4.11. Banking, money and credit 4. Services of the military commander Belgium/Northern France 4.1. Representative for material recording State of development: Findbuch Scope, explanation: 450 AU Citation method: BArch, RW 36/...

Inventory description: The political conditions and military events in the countries of Southeastern Europe, as well as the appointment of the General Representative for the Economy in Serbia in May 1941, led to a wide variety of organizational measures in the defense sector. It passed: Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Preßburg - Slovakia - (1940-1944), Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Budapest - Hungary - (1941-1945), Höherer Wehrwirtschaftsführer beim Oberbefehlshaber Südost/ Operationsstab" Margarethe (1944)", Military Economics Officer Agram -Kroatioen- (1941-1944), Military Economics Staff Southeast (responsible for Serbia, 1941-1944), Military Economics Officer Albania (1944), Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Rumänien / Deutsche Wehrwirtschaftsmission (1942-1944), Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Transnistrien -Odessa-(1941-1942), Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Sofia -Bulgarien- (1941-1944), Wehrwirtschaftsstab Griechenland (1943-1944), Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Athen (1941-1943), Wirtschaftskommando, later Wehrwirtschaftsoffizier Saloniki (1941-1943). The main task of the armaments agencies was to use the economy for German armament orders and to cover the needs of the occupying troops. With the retreat of the front in 1944, the responsibility was often transferred to the economic officers of the front units (RW 46). Characterisation of content: RW 29 summarises the traditions of several armaments agencies in South Eastern Europe, as separation was not possible for organisational and registration reasons. As a rule, the war diaries and situation reports range from the listings to mid/late 1944, while those of some agencies only extend up to 1943. Only Wehrwirtschaftsstab Südost has a noteworthy number of records available (13 volumes); among other things, they refer to transport issues. The war diaries, situation reports and the history of the military economic and armament service stations (from 1940 to 1944) were successively removed from the registries during the war and handed over to the "Archiv der Wehrwirtschaftsdienststellen" (last in Muskau/Oberlausitz). Most of the material files remained with the registrar and were presumably destroyed there at the end of the war. The "Archive of Military Economic Offices" was relocated to Vacha/Thuringia in 1945 and confiscated there by the Americans. The return of the documents from the USA to the Federal Republic of Germany took place in 1960. State of development: Findbuch Umfang, Explanation: 116 AU citation method: BArch, RW 29/...